Things Heard: e51v2

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 at 9:27 am

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One bar set, will it move? Is that where you set the bar?
Isn’t the answer, shame?
Standing with your dirty undergarments exposed.
Will the next major political battle be between left and far-left?
A societal rejection to reject or … “is Outrage!”
More bingo.
Culture, rejection of same, and failure to reject what should be rejected.
Academic follies.
Pro-life in tomorrow’s nation.
MLK, Aquinas and law.
The “not indicted” as refutation of connection.
No.
Still ahead of the bronze age.
On the simulator, flight 1549.
Change … or not.
Not $45 million … in excess or $170 million … and much of the money from Wall Street beneficiaries of bailout dough.

Things Heard: e51v1

Monday, January 19th, 2009 at 9:33 am

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Ewww. I think the idea that there is “no law against it”, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be fired for doing it.
Well, there you go. A counter to Mr Warren being offered a chance to offer public prayer.
The other side of the sweatshop coin.
A good story from the desert.
On MLKj.
Standing against a classless society.
Identity vs conviction … and those standing convicted of a lack of conviction.
Failing to mention his graduate students … who likely did the real work?
Journalism and a question.
Troy Polamalu and taking one’s faith seriously.
Yet again, bias and the media.
History and a blogged discussion. The original. A dissenting view. Another response.
Suffering for purpose.
For those with BDS.
An Orthodox reading plan. Now I just need a Philokalia reading plan to put along side it. 🙂
Next year … how will Mr Obama treat with Sanctity of Life Sunday?
Heh.
Job and Galactica considered.
I concur.
Gosh another Ponzi found.
My daughter was there.
An odd road glyph.
Bad advice I think?

Things Heard: e50v5

Friday, January 16th, 2009 at 9:20 am

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Humor and the incoming President. If humor about the President is a duty of the loyal opposition, perhaps the uniformity of political alleigence of the comedy writers is problematic?
A “window” into pro-life in action.
This satirical piece makes an interesting point. If the “multiplier” idea is dumb … why isn’t it dumb when the Feds do it?
Atheist/Pagan and a little history.
Today in 1919.
A teen alternate history book, the Explosionist reviewed.
Does Shamsia Hsseini = Rosa Parks? Will the mainstream press notice … after Monday when they are allowed to care about reality again?
Plagarism discussed.
(faint?) Singular praise for Mr Bush from a Libertarian.
Or … perhaps akin to listening to atheists describe the faith experience and motivations.
Does that mean that Christians should shed self-control? After all, like St. Paul we would be servants (really slaves from the Greek) of Christ, no?
3 miles?
Suspecting the enthusiasm … after all look how well that worked out the last time.
Of Cato the Elder.
Mil-tech geekery.
Mommmmmmaaaaaa.
Whence the outrage … bias perhaps?
Some more links.
Getting facts straight.
Fiction, truth and lies.
I do need that book.
One reason for the quantity of illegal aliens … Mexico’s problems.
“smart power” as stupid adspeak.
Verse + math.

Things Heard: e50v4

Thursday, January 15th, 2009 at 1:52 pm

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I for one have never been a member of a non-small church.
Of gymnastics in Belorus today.
War and life, and being consistent.
Here and there and Mumbai.
Kiddie soldiers and the ICC.
Are Jews closer to Islam in their beliefs?
Hints for blogging.
I got this book during the holidays … in a few weeks, I’m traveling again … I’m looking forward to reading it.
On that affirmative action thing.
Dostoevsky on the individual.
Focus for your tolerance.
Marx attribution faked. Why?
Gene Robinson’s multi-religion prayer considered (in advance of that actual prayer). Or a view of how real-life philosophers pare down the “stupid or evil” choice.
So who’d blink first?
It’s not just cold in Chicago it seems.
I was there this summer, but a hockey game … hmm.
Ms Paglia on Ms Couric.
I don’t really thing the idea of a postulant is all that new.
Memory eternal, a death noted.

Things Heard: e50v3

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009 at 10:26 am

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Wow, for the stupid insult of the day, check out “Soviet/Maoist” red, would the balanced alternative be Luftwaffe blue?
And more on that leftwing icon/hero Che.
Another lefty doh moment, dude … this is America we’re talking about.
Carp(al) keyboard.
What’s that mean, “unwinnable?” (and does that mean like Iraq?)
Clearly overstated threat.
That cross thing.
Some interesting tidbits from a Andre Weil biography. I heard Mr Weil lecture while I was at school and I’ve got a few of his books. Spare and elegant.
Speaking of maths, fractal cabbages.
Shapeshifter battles, and the Pope’s last encyclical?
“the Lull”, I’m thinking for some people, that word doesn’t mean what they think it means.
Bush and Obama … perhaps not so changey.
Heh. Are they all hard of hearing in Texas?
Plugging Taiwanese carbon.
Words and sex. I recall a few days x-country skiing with my Dad years ago, for various reasons my brother and mom didn’t join us right away. I think we exchanged 20 words a day for about three days. It was wonderful.
I need to read this essay more carefully … but it looks interesting.
Dreams.
Ok, gotcha. Henceforth, it’s small “b” and small “w”. ’cause that “heritage, experience, …” and so forth are nothing but a non-singular multiplicity. The notion that they are singular is a pernicious fiction.
This reminds me of that story from British occupied India, in which some Indians were objecting that wife burning was an ancient and revered custom. The British officer reminded them that they too had a ancient and revered custom … that was to hang people who burn their wives.

Things Heard: e50v

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009 at 10:05 am

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Obsession with sex … and the seminary.
Remembering Aleksandr.
Christians in need of forgiveness.
California.
Next generation intelligence gathering.
Patristics carnival.
The killing hasn’t stopped.
Hmmm.
Jews and Turkey.
A book, on theology and ontology, noted.
Of the wider community and salvation.
Start with humility.
So, is Mr Obama serious about economic recovery … or “shrinking the economy.”
A question.
Dreaming and dreamer, close to the worst case scenario.
For Christian charity … don’t look here.

Things Heard: e50v1

Monday, January 12th, 2009 at 10:04 am

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Flee (E)Utopia.
Man and identity.
Meta-linking, that is to say, Brandon offers links.
Considering pagans down under.
Pascal and poison.
An interesting conundrum for the left, Obama (apparently) wants to spend many billions on infra-structure, i.e., building things. But the left has put up lots of regulation making construction difficult. Hmm, how will that be resolved?
Offensive?
Quashing epiphany?
Upcoming march.
Did you know that?
Reckless language and the “slurs of Andrew Sullivan.”
Theology and Mr Eastwood.
Clauswitz.
Two names not normally linked.
Whence hope?
Answers for the Afro-phile.

Things Heard: e49v5

Friday, January 9th, 2009 at 10:01 am

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A prayer for the children … of Gaza.
Commuter bike design contest finalists.
A clean joke.
A clean country mile viewed from the Yukon.
The “evils” of the Pope, refuted.\
Apparently law school doesn’t teach logic. Ms Fey -> accountability … alas no connection.
Permitted rape?
The Christian reconciliation carnival returns.
Ms Goldberg feeds thousands with 3 fish and 6 loaves? or not.
Beauty, romance, and the christian life.
Making the abstractions concrete.
Two observations made by the late Fr Neuhaus.
Don’t forget the package.
Kill them, in a Christ-like fashion?
Persecution on the quiet.
And to think, there are real babies needing love and comfort.
If the intentions aren’t pure, the deeds make no difference I guess.
Watching the globe cool.
More on the Mumbai murders.
Might one of the Presidents defenders ‘splain (or defend) the notion of intelligent spending of $1.5 billion (500 times)?

Things Heard: e49v4

Thursday, January 8th, 2009 at 10:17 am

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Ghana?
A more measured look at Rowan Williams.
Mr Ziegler looks at Mrs Palin.
Gran Torino, a review.
Cuteness and Nietzshe.
Forcing news to fit the narrative.
Monastic investiture.
Speaking of comebacks, a cyclist I cheered considers coming back (not Armstrong … Michele).
Low power standby.
A blogger, who happens to have a mass murderer as a grandfather.
A Palestinian not liking the tactics … of the Palestinians.
Science and religion.
What is liturgy … a question for even the secular crowd to consider as we approach the political liturgical event ending the current interregnum.
I think it’s warmer there, i.e., not -15 C.
Women in the early church … and popular patristic sources.
Eucharist … ur not doing it rite.
Someone wants to chide people about forgetting about what lynching means … who himself forgot the origins of lynching apparently.
Ugly car.

Things Heard: e49v3

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 at 10:04 am

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For the church, sex, and beauty discussion.
Lessons from Detroit for the Church … maybe.
In but not of … or not.
Traps for the converts to avoid.
Democrats and the MTB crowd.
On hard times … but whence “celebrate your sufferings” (Rom 5:3)?
Nature celebrated.
Challenge/response and Theophany.
Brave and principled … or not.
Mr Fernandez considers Mr Panetta’s appointment.
For the Catholic, the only native US saint.
Tink.
Economic metaphor and the church, then and now.
Zooooom.
Virginity pledges and lying with statistics?
Free healthcare and actual effects on population health.
Other free money matters.
Panetta … a Bushian choice.

Things Heard: e48v2

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 at 10:10 am

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Boing, or more accurately “sproing.”
Trombone.
Smaller cheaper accelerator?
Hmmm.
God and Mr Burris … and the press.
Will that affect US gas prices?
Faith, and analogy to computer languages.
Yah right, the War on Terror really put a dent in progress on speech recognition … or not.
Jesus and the ring of Gygax (?), i.e., was he invisible to the non-pious?
Ornithiferous verse.
Five years … not three months.
How not to get public opinion to move your way.
Homeschooling again.
Wallpaper.
Some New Years resolutions.
David’s cancer story thus far.
You won’t “just save a life.”
Oops.

Things Heard: e48v1

Monday, January 5th, 2009 at 10:17 am

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Tonight, blessing of waters in our varied Orthodox liturgical year.
Hmmm.
Alternatives to public education.
Example one. Example two. Example three. Media bias?
Of language not fair but foul.
Good news for the type one crowd, perhaps.
D’oh.
Considering a game.
Number and game. Further reading can be found in this book, The Book of Numbers.
Balance is key.
Verse.
Numbers and blood.
A Saint recalled.
Worry.
Yield.
A death noted. I’ve read Dortmunder stories and enjoyed them, but did not know he wrote under the pseudonym Stark.
And old great church.
That’s a good idea.
Gosh, ya think?
Some books.
Ducted windmills?
Ethics and the law?

Things Heard: e47v3

Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 at 10:32 am

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Holiday lighting.
Some history … “for the kings and princes of Europe the Mohammedans were an alien culture, and not well understood.” Unlike today where they are … soooo familiar. The more things change, the more they remain the same?
Keep praying for David … an update on his status.
Congolese massacre.
Wanna live longer? Be hungry all the time … with the added benefit of course that your longer life will seem longer too.
A conversation on porn.
Pointing out an essential difficulty with a Greenwaldian talking point.
Retiree!? Yah, right. I much prefer, “domestic goddess” for the at-home mom.
Mr Obama as Magic Negro from the left.
A followup article to the Africa/Christianity one.
Hoofing around Munchen.
Groceries in Malaysia.
Hmmm.
A wine bottle trick.
Khyber pass news.
I concur.
Just suffer more?

Things Heard: e47v2

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 at 10:34 am

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A journey to Christianity.
On saving it.
Really scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Not a dog.
That Karamazov yarn examined.
Reason and opposition, abortion and SSM.
This week’s feast, coin in bread.
The missing character in Valkyrie.
Some thoughts from the right on the Magic Negro song.
Yech.
The fly in the Obama financial rescue ointment. More here.
Hmm.
Considering Culture, i.e., Ian Banks “Culture” civilization.
Depressing for him, opportunity for the rest of us.
Killing, sans song … perhaps softly.
Brain booster.

Things Heard: e47v1

Monday, December 29th, 2008 at 10:14 am

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Unable to sustain faith (in science infected with money interests). One wonders if global warming and the money/science/faith connection with occur more globally.
Hotels and Internet. It’s my experience (globally) that the high end and low end hotels all charge for internet. Judging from the Internet price, I’d guess SPH considers itself “high end” and charges accordingly like its peers.
A book for youth (and perhaps more) recommended. Twelve more here.
The former premier atheist remembered.
The view from the entitlement wing.
Home servers?
Directly connecting media and Palin vs Kennedy. This connects to that as well.
Straight to a girls heart, genus genius of course.
QoD links. (that’d be mostly evolutionary biology)
A deontological response.
An atheist disagrees fundamentally with Dawkins.
Hunting … Elmer?
Heh.
So, now we all know.
I saw many of his works displayed in the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg this summer and I agree they are very striking.
Saint Lucia remembered.
Crime and punishment?
Where the green global warming fans (fanatics) are leading us, to solutions that just don’t work?
Christ hidden in Talmud?

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